Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power - 'Riotously candid' Sunday Times - Couverture rigide

Swire, Sasha

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1408713411 ISBN 13 : 9781408713419

Editeur : Little, Brown, 2020

Synopsis

Sunday Times Political Book of the Year

A Book of the Year pick in the New Statesman, Financial Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Mail on Sunday and The Times

'A gossipy, amusing, opinionated account of what it's like to be married to an MP . . . Good fun and eye-opening' The Times

'Riotously candid' Decca Aitkenhead, Sunday Times

Pick of 2020 by Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the lid.

For more than twenty years she has kept a secret diary detailing the trials and tribulations of being a political plus-one, and gives us a ringside seat at the seismic political events of the last decade. A professional partner and loyal spouse, Swire has strong political opinions herself - sometimes more 'No, Minister' than 'Yes'. She detonates the stereotype of the dutiful wife.

From shenanigans in Budleigh Salterton to state banquets at Buckingham Palace, gun-toting terrorist busters in pizza restaurants to dinners in Downing Street sitting next to Boris Johnson, Devon hedges to partying with City hedgies, she observes the great and the not-so-great at the closest of quarters. The results are painfully revealing and often hilariously funny. Here are the friendships and the fall-outs, the general elections and the leadership contests, the scandals and the rivalries. Swire showed up, shored up and rarely shut up. She also wrote it all down.

Diary of an MP's Wife is a searingly honest, wildly indiscreet and often uproarious account of what life is like in the thick of it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sasha Swire is the author of the bestselling Diary of an MP's Wife. She was born and brought up in west Cornwall, where her father, Sir John Nott, was MP for the St Ives constituency. She was a journalist on national and regional publications and in Asia before working as her husband Hugo Swire's political researcher from 2001 to 2019. She divides her time between Devon and London.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'Candid, irreverent, occasionally outrageous and sometimes hilarious' Chris Mullin, Spectator

'Imagine the Alan Clark Diaries , but written by his wife Jane instead...there's an acute political intelligence at work' Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian

'A treasure chest for tomorrow's historians' Quentin Letts, The Times

'A glorious, compelling, jaw-dropping read' Evening Standard

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the lid.

For more than twenty years she has kept a secret diary detailing the trials and tribulations of being a political plus-one, and gives us a ringside seat at the seismic political events of the last decade. A professional partner and loyal spouse, Swire has strong political opinions herself - sometimes more 'No, Minister' than 'Yes'. She detonates the stereotype of the dutiful wife.

From shenanigans in Budleigh Salterton to state banquets at Buckingham Palace, gun-toting terrorist busters in pizza restaurants to dinners in Downing Street sitting next to Boris Johnson, Devon hedges to partying with City hedgies, she observes the great and the not-so-great at the closest of quarters. The results are painfully revealing and often hilariously funny. Here are the friendships and the fall-outs, the general elections and the leadership contests, the scandals and the rivalries. Swire showed up, shored up and rarely shut up. She also wrote it all down.

Diary of an MP's Wife is a searingly honest, wildly indiscreet and often uproarious account of what life is like in the thick of it.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408713411
• ISBN 13: 9781408713419
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 544
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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